Technical debt, aka I keep forgetting about custom.css

A month ago, I decided to make a tiny innocent change to my blog: change the dates to ISO 8601 format, AKA just ISO dates, which has been my favorite way to write dates ever since I started journaling on a computer. That little change proved to be more involved than I thought, and broke a few things. I have since then fixed them, but others are still hidden. At this point, I’m starting to lose track as to what I broke with that change and what has been, to one degree or another, broken for a while. Wait, how can something on a website be broken to one degree or another? Is it broken or not? Well, you see… CSS. If you go to my actual website (RSS wouldn’t pick this up), you’d see that the dates for each blog post use the same red color as the heading and other elements in the theme. That red has been with me for a long time, since the days of the old blog and before. If you inspect it in your browser, you will see that this color (#8b0000) is defined in custom.css, but the font size is…